Sweet Home Fire & Ambulance District

Sweet Home Fire & Ambulance District was paid $1.32M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 94% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSWEET HOME FIRE & AMBULANCE DISTRICT
SWEET HOME, OR 97386

33aNPI1467402297assigned 05/11/2006

33bProvider typeLand Ambulance

28Total paid$1.32M

24GClaims11,457

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Land Ambulance providers in Oregon

Rank by total paid#22 of 63

Median peer was paid$758K

This provider vs. median1.7×

Peers share this provider's primary NPPES type and state. Size alone says nothing about billing quality: a big agency or a hospital system is expected to sit far above the median.

Auditor's notes

Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.

Single-Code Concentration94% of spending on code A0427 with only 2 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.

Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

Paid that monthNov–Dec 2024: claims still arriving when the file was cut, so these months run low for every provider

By year, as a table

Year	Claims	Paid
2018	1,172	$154K
2019	3,065	$248K
2020	1,194	$155K
2021	1,705	$220K
2022	1,584	$195K
2023	1,414	$177K
2024incomplete	1,323	$172K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
A0427	Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency)	94%	5,724	3,866	$1.24M
A0425	Ground mileage, per statute mile	6.1%	5,733	3,863	$80K

Claims and beneficiary counts add up across code × month rows, so one patient seen every month counts many times. Rows with fewer than 12 claims are suppressed by HHS, so small lines can be missing.

From NPPES

Who's on the registration

Authorized officialBARRINGER, DAVID (FIRE CHIEF)